Which race would you say provides the most interesting roleplaying experience?

[e11]

It's a little early for me to be giving my second character any real thought, but I was just curious. I started with a human, for a "normal" playthrough, as part of a genius scheme to help make a second one hold my interest.

So... in your opinion, which are the really interesting races, as far as how the game world reacts?

[Orion Invictus]

Githyanki and Drow have the highest reactivity, if I'm not mistaken.

[AlpacaDGY]

From the races I played, Drow and Tieflings have the most dialog options and reactions from other people then other races I played.

But in general, I think all the races have a good amount of world interactions in Chapter 1 and then they all are mostly reacted exactly the same in Chapter 3.

[fulf]

probably gith because the game doesn't just assume you're a balduran, haven't played one tho
the game hardly seems to realize you're playing a dragonborn if you pick one until act 3, presumably because they came late in development
and tieflings have been genericized and made commonplace to the point any interesting roleplay that could come from them being infernal hellspawn with evil in their blood is replaced with "one-dimensional racism surrogate" and "the race you play if you wanna color yourself like a tumblr oc" imo

[Mr. Huckleberry]

Def trans, black, dwarf. Plus, you get all kinds of bonuses.

[nuther]

The story is better if you play as dragon born.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by e11:

Which race would you say provides the most interesting roleplaying experience?
It's a little early for me to be giving my second character any real thought, but I was just curious. I started with a human, for a "normal" playthrough, as part of a genius scheme to help make a second one hold my interest.

So... in your opinion, which are the really interesting races, as far as how the game world reacts?

Githyanki, Drow, Tiefling

[Sheogorath]

Duergar also has quite a fair amount of reactions and such it was very fun to play

[arikel.pv]

Githyanki and Tieflings - due to their plot line; but for me the best stance for now is a female Lolth-sworn Drow. So much fun in the Underdark!
Also, most classes also have totally hilarious reactions on some game events, whatever their race is

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by arikel.pv:

Githyanki and Tieflings - due to their plot line; but for me the best stance for now is a female Lolth-sworn Drow. So much fun in the Underdark!
Also, most classes also have totally hilarious reactions on some game events, whatever their race is

Bard has sure the most hilarious event cutscenes.

[Kittybass]

I haven't played as a Githyanki yet, but I had a fun time playing a Drow. Tieflings get reactions too but I remember there being more for the Drow.

[Kamuizin]

Originally posted by fulf:

probably gith because the game doesn't just assume you're a balduran, haven't played one tho
the game hardly seems to realize you're playing a dragonborn if you pick one until act 3, presumably because they came late in development
and tieflings have been genericized and made commonplace to the point any interesting roleplay that could come from them being infernal hellspawn with evil in their blood is replaced with "one-dimensional racism surrogate" and "the race you play if you wanna color yourself like a tumblr oc" imo

It may assume you’re balduran, based on the background of you choice. My urchin background rogue had tons of [balduran] dialogue options (some that are best not taken).

But for her half-elf heritage, i had 2 options in act 1 until now.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Githyanki and Drow have the highest reactivity, if I'm not mistaken.

Drow for sure has a good amount of unique interactions, female from is superior in the regard 100%

Dragonbron has a few fun ones, but they aren't as common.

[Lani]

I agree with Gityhanki, Drow and Tiefling. I do feel a disconnect sometimes after a bit of racial flavour text things turn back to normal. I feel this the strongest when interacting with Lae'Zell as a Girhyanki. For the Gith Experience, play as Lae'Zell in stead.

BG3 is still much better at keeping up racial flavour than Dragon Age was where the moment you join the Grey Wardens you become flavourless and colourless as the title suggests. They fixed that a bit later with updates and DLC but by then i just couldn't stomach having to deal with the spirits of the woods and the werewolves one more time. Or the Fade. Gods, the Fade...

To be honest I'd suggest Dark Urge for the Roleplaying Experience over a specific race, but you could double down of course or leave the racial experience for your third, fourth and fifth play-throughs.

My personal best RP experience though was playing an older Mazzy Fentan (from BG2) as a paladin (Vengeance Oath), even though there's no special dialogue for her at all it let my head canon go wild. Especially as I've played enough Jennifer Hale voiced characters of the decades to 'hear' the dialogue in her voice. :-)

[e11]

Originally posted by Lani:

My personal best RP experience though was playing an older Mazzy Fentan (from BG2) as a paladin (Vengeance Oath), even though there's no special dialogue for her at all it let my head canon go wild. Especially as I've played enough Jennifer Hale voiced characters of the decades to 'hear' the dialogue in her voice. :-)

Holy Hell, you are a genius.

[Hutetu]

Originally posted by Lani:

I agree with Gityhanki, Drow and Tiefling. I do feel a disconnect sometimes after a bit of racial flavour text things turn back to normal. I feel this the strongest when interacting with Lae'Zell as a Girhyanki. For the Gith Experience, play as Lae'Zell in stead.

BG3 is still much better at keeping up racial flavour than Dragon Age was where the moment you join the Grey Wardens you become flavourless and colourless as the title suggests. They fixed that a bit later with updates and DLC but by then i just couldn't stomach having to deal with the spirits of the woods and the werewolves one more time. Or the Fade. Gods, the Fade...

To be honest I'd suggest Dark Urge for the Roleplaying Experience over a specific race, but you could double down of course or leave the racial experience for your third, fourth and fifth play-throughs.

My personal best RP experience though was playing an older Mazzy Fentan (from BG2) as a paladin (Vengeance Oath), even though there's no special dialogue for her at all it let my head canon go wild. Especially as I've played enough Jennifer Hale voiced characters of the decades to 'hear' the dialogue in her voice. :-)

DAO might not have so much race specific dialogue outside of what you can say to companions but i always felt like the game was worth playing and exploring every race at least once because of the characters you meet later on from your origin story.
Some gave very strong emotional impact.

And yes the fade was terrible xD I can't play without the ''Skip the fade'' mod whenever i do a replay.